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Professional staff are employed by KACCH to provide psychosocial support for children and their families in hospital. Play opportunities are provided in attractively decorated paediatric wards and other areas of the hospital where children are treated. Through specialised play techniques, children in hospital are helped to understand their medical conditions and treatment procedures, encouraged to express their feelings, cope with painful procedures and continue their normal development. Research has shown that when children are given this kind of support in hospital, their stress levels are reduced, they respond better to treatments and they have fewer complications.

The professional staff who give psychosocial support to children and their families in hospital are called CHILD LIFE SPECIALISTS. They complete a one-year post-graduate course in Child Life at Kuwait University and are then employed by KACCH to work on the paediatric wards with children and their families in Kuwait’s hospitals. The Child Life Specialists are assisted by Play Leaders who organise a comprehensive range of play activities in the hospital playrooms, and Volunteers who spend three hours one or two mornings per week helping the Play Leaders with play activities.